BA (Hons) Writing and English Literature

Bachelor's degree

In Cambridge

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Cambridge

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    September

Develop your creative and professional writing skills while learning how English literature has shaped, and been shaped by, society. Prepare for work in many creative areas, including fiction writing, journalism, arts criticism and publishing.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Cambridge (Cambridgeshire )
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Anglia Ruskin University, Eastings Building,, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT, United Kingdom

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now open

About this course


Our BA (Hons) Writing and English Literature will help you develop many skills for your future career, including literacy, communication, creativity, self-reliance and teamwork.
Many of our graduates have found success in roles such as journalism, teaching, writing, television, radio, the music industry, gallery work and arts administration.
Our work-based modules will give you a chance to get crucial experience in the field that you hope to work in, and our links to local professional bodies - including Cambridge University Press, Windhorse Publishing and Writers’ Centre Norwich – can help you find a placement.

120 UCAS Tariff points from a minimum of 2 A Levels (or equivalent), including grade C in English Language or English Literature.
3 GCSEs at grade C, or grade 4, or above.
If English is not your first language you will be expected to demonstrate a certificated level of proficiency of at least IELTS 7.0 ( Academic level), or equivalent English Language qualification, as recognised by Anglia Ruskin University.

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Subjects

  • English Language
  • English Conversation
  • English
  • Writing
  • English Literature
  • Literature
  • History of English Literature
  • Imaginative Writing
  • Writing to Entertain
  • Criticism for Writers

Course programme

Year one, core modules
  • A History of English Literature, from the present to 1789
  • Introduction to Imaginative Writing: Prose Fiction
  • Reading Literature and Theory
  • Writing to Entertain, Inform and Persuade
  • Introduction to Imaginative Writing: Poetry and Plays
  • Language and Criticism for Writers
  • A History of English Literature from Chaucer to Equiano
Year one, optional modules
  • Fundamentals of Publishing
Year two, core modules
  • Writing Short Fiction
  • Romantic Conflicts
  • Writing for the Stage
  • Victorian Literature and Culture
Year two, optional modules
  • Postcolonial Writing
  • Screenwriting: The Feature Film
  • Myth and Medievalism
  • Writing World War One: Trauma, Memory, Resistance
  • Modernism and the City
  • News and Feature Writing
  • Black British Writing
  • The European Novel: Desire and Transgression
  • Writing Historical Fiction
  • Dialogue and Debate: More to Milton
  • The History of the Book
Year three, core modules
  • Major Project
  • Writing Poetry
  • Contemporary Fiction
Year three, optional modules
  • Scriptwriting: Multi Platform Storytelling
  • Modern Science Fiction
  • World Literature
  • Special Topic 2
  • Renaissance Magic
  • Elizabeth Gaskell and the Brontës
  • Working in English and Media
  • Film Journalism
  • Writing Speculative Fiction
  • Writing Creative Non-Fiction
  • Literature and Exile: Displacement, Identity, Self
  • Theorising Children's Literature
  • Romantic Idealism
  • Publishing in Practice
Optional modules available all years
  • Anglia Language Programme

Additional information

International students -  2018/19 (per year) £12,500

BA (Hons) Writing and English Literature

Price on request